<\/span>in an\u00a0attempt to retract his own UN report.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd yet I wonder: how different would it be?\u00a0 How different could it be? Goldstone is impressed with Israel dedicating some \u00a0\u201csignificant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza\u2019, but it somehow leaves me bewildered.<\/span><\/p>\nLet us assume that at the time Goldstone and his team looked into the cold blooded murder of more than 1400 Palestinians,\u00a0they would also be aware of an Israeli enquiry. What difference would it make?\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n\u2018For example,\u2019 says Goldstone,\u00a0\u2018the most serious attack the Goldstone Report focused on was the killing of some 29 members of the al-Simouni family in their home. The shelling of the home was apparently (according to the Israeli investigation) the consequence of an Israeli commander\u2019s erroneous interpretation of a drone image, and an Israeli officer is under investigation for having ordered the attack.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\nFor some peculiar reason, Goldstone\u00a0allows Israel to\u00a0reduce its institutional responsibility for a colossal war crime, into a chain of local errors, made by a few low rank officers who may, or may not, face criminal charges.<\/span><\/p>\nOne should remind Goldstone that the decision to use artillery and carpet bombardment in Gaza wasn\u2019t taken by \u2018some\u2019 military commanders on the ground: these decisions were taken by a democratically elected Israeli cabinet. Furthermore, these decisions were supported at the time by 94% of the Israeli Jewish population.\u2028\u2028 The decision to rain barrages of white phosphorous over the most populated place on this planet was a strategic decision, and it was taken by Israeli military high command.\u00a0 The fact that Israel (may) sacrifice the military career of one Moishe\u2019le or two Yank\u2019le doesn\u2019t change the validity of Goldstone original report at all; it only proves that Israel fails to take responsibility for its actions.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Israeli \u2018enquiry\u2019 should actually be interpreted as a typical act of Zionist cowardice, for the Jewish state fails to admit its collective responsibility for\u00a0the atrocities it committed in the name of the Jewish people, and in the name of the Goldstones of this world. Instead of taking responsibility then, Israeli politicians now want to put the blame on Israel\u2019s soldiers.\u2028\u2028 And for some reason, Goldstone would like the Hamas to do the same: Goldstone (the new master of the U-Turn) foresees the Hamas behaving\u00a0like Israel i.e.\u00a0 involved in spin and deception. He basically expects the Hamas to zigzag like himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBut the Hamas is clearly made of better material — unlike Israeli politicians and Goldstone, the Hamas takes full responsibility for its actions. It openly and proudly resists the racist Jewish state. It is not trying to place the blame on some anonymous grass roots freedom fighters — The Hamas is sending love letters to the Palestinians\u2019 stolen land. Indeed, some send messages in bottles; the Hamas send them in rockets. But the message is beautiful, simple and clear.\u2028\u2028 \u2018My lands, my soil, don\u2019t lose your hope on us. We are here surrounded by barbed wire, but time will come soon for us to unite.<\/span><\/p>\nIn his convoluted Washington Post apology, Goldstone reveals a severe lack of\u00a0understanding of\u00a0Israeli militarism, its role, and its operational philosophy. Israeli strategy is based on the power of deterrence. Israel\u00a0is there\u00a0to terrify its neighbours, through death, and carnage.\u00a0 Israel believes that through shock and awe, it can exhaust the Palestinians, and break their spirit. Every so often, the Jewish state exercises a genocidal act — and the numbers of Palestinian fatalities speak for themselves. More than 1400 Palestinians died in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead: they died because Israel believes that Jewish future\u00a0security is a function of the pain it inflicts upon others. The Goldstone report exposes the criminality that is imbued within Israeli militarism, and Goldstone\u2019s current\u00a0attempt to dismantle his own report cannot wash away his original findings.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>I tend to agree that Goldstone’s U Turn was surely inevitable:\u00a0the history of Jewish animosity towards dissidents has long been firmly established, and\u00a0in the last two years Goldstone and his family\u00a0were subject to enormous pressure and social exclusion. It is more than likely that Goldstone was torn apart by it all. \u2028\u2028But the time has surely come to admit that we have reached the point of no return: we have to free our intellectual, spiritual and ethical life from any trace of Zionist ideology, from people who may have Zionist views or may have even been affiliated with Zionist philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\nI believe that ethical discourse should move beyond any form of Judeo centric\u00a0\u2018ethical zigzagging.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\nSource <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The history of Jewish animosity towards dissidents has long been firmly established, and in the last two years Goldstone and his family were subject to enormous pressure and social exclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23759,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23574\/revisions\/23759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}